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It's finally there, my dear Vista developers: Download Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Release Notes
Several month ago, Peter Huene introduced VC Build , a command line tool to build C++ projects and solutions. For building our product, we have a huge batch file, which spawns devenv for every project. You have to know that devenv loads lots of DLLs and...
After waiting for two days that I can download Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1, it's now available... but what the heck? There's no DVD image. Instead I have to download at least 5 CD images (2x VS 2005 Enterprise Architect (1 GB), and 3x MSDN Library...
*Sigh* You may have already read that today (06/29/2004) Visual Studio Beta 1 should be available to MSDN subscribers. I'm checking the Subscriber Downloads pages now for several hours every now and then, but until now (17:47, or 5:47 PM for my American...
Peter Provost wrote I want to start a blog petition. I want everyone who agrees with me to blog the following sentence: Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System. Please link or trackback...
Ooops. I didn't notice the release of Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2004 until I read Sam Gentile's posting : I'm installing the “May” technical preview. With the new Burton tools, it installs to 2.3 GB!! Although it...
Peter Huene has compiled a list of new features in Whidbey related to C++. The two features I like most are: Multi-proc builds: if you have multiple processors in your machine, you can build your projects in parallel. This works through utilizing project...
Microsoft has delayed the release of SQL Server 2005 (formerly known as Yukon) and Whidbey (VS.NET 2005?) to H1/2005. I hope we get same betas till then.
Refactoring in VB.NET is somewhat different from C#... [via David Stone ]
... but I have to switch back to .NET 1.1 because of this bug issue : I've already written about 2k lines, but this issue bars me from doing any UI development Additionally, I don't want to wait another year before releasing this project. However...
Nice new features in the IDE: Expansion, configurable via XML schema (e.g. automatic getter and setter for properties) Code formatting (customizable) Filter completion list (e.g. the list in catch( contains exception classes only) Browse components (generates...
In this session Steve Lasker presented the mainly the form designed in Whidbey. E.g. the alignment of control will be much easier, it will create guidelines for top, baseline, and bottom alignment automatically. Another enhancement is the data binding...